標題: Husband charged with wife's murder 11 years after fatal home shooting [打印本頁] 作者: miniming 時間: 2021-5-21 12:15 標題: Husband charged with wife's murder 11 years after fatal home shooting
Husband charged with wife's murder 11 years after fatal home shooting
Prosecutors allege the Minnesota man intentionally shot his wife.
A Minnesota man has been charged with the murder of his wife 11 years after she was shot and killed in their home.
Nicholas James Firkus, 38, was arrested Wednesday and charged with second-degree intentional murder in the death of his wife, Heidi Firkus, on April 25, 2010. At the time, he told police that an intruder broke into their home, grabbed his shotgun and shot them both, according to an arrest warrant that was unsealed Thursday.
The Saint Paul Police Department has been investigating the homicide ever since. During a press briefing Thursday, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi credited the involvement of the FBI, a new homicide investigator on the case offering a "fresh set of eyes" and the enhancement of a 911 call from the morning of the murder in leading to an arrest.
"This is like putting together a giant puzzle, and sometimes it just takes a lot of time to bring in different pieces, and to look at that and to be able to have somebody new try to find the right piece," Michael Krause, assistant special agent at the Minneapolis field office for the FBI, told reporters.
Last year, the FBI also brought in additional trained specialists to help with the investigation, Krause said.
The arrest warrant offers details of the 911 call made the morning of April 25, right before Heidi Firkus was killed, and outlines the couple's apparent financial struggles at the time of her death.
At 6:31 a.m. that day, Heidi Firkus called 911 from her cell phone to report that someone was trying to break into her house in Saint Paul, according to the warrant.
"Thirty-eight seconds into the call, as Heidi was giving dispatch her address, a noise similar to a gunshot was heard, Heidi stopped speaking, and the call went dead," the warrant stated. "Before the gunshot, there is no significant background noise on the call, nor does Heidi say anything that would suggest that an intruder had actually entered the home."
The 911 dispatcher tried calling back twice but the calls went to voicemail, and about a minute later Nicholas Firkus called 911 from his wife's phone, according to the warrant.
"He was highly emotional," the warrant stated. "He said that someone had broken into their home and that he and Heidi had been shot while trying to run out the back to the garage. Near the end of the almost-seven-minute call, police can be heard entering the house."
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